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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The word “Arawak” comes from “aru” which is the Lucayan word for what?
2. What were the two main resources sought by Christopher Columbus on his voyage when he first encountered the Arawaks?
3. When did James Polk serve as President of the United States?
4. The author states in Chapter 2, “It is roughly estimated that Africa lost” how many “human beings to death and slavery in those centuries we call the beginnings of modern Western civilization”?
5. On Columbus’s second voyage for the King and Queen of Spain, he was unable to locate gold so he instead filled his ships with how many slaves?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did the English send 1,000 soldiers to Virginia in 1676, according to the author in Chapter 3?
2. How does Howard Zinn describe the changes of the Native American population from the 1820s to the 1840s in Chapter 7?
3. How does the author describe Mexico’s land area and status after 1821 in Chapter 8?
4. What does the author say of “natural antipathy” in Chapter 2?
5. How does Howard Zinn describe the growth in the number of slaves in the United States between 1790 and 1860 in Chapter 9?
6. What did Columbus discover when he returned to his fort at Navidad on his second journey, according to the author in Chapter 1? What did he take with him?
7. How is the Flour Riot of 1837 described in Chapter 10? What was the cause of the riot?
8. How does the author describe the Sioux puberty ceremony for women in Chapter 6?
9. How does the author describe the growing violence surrounding slavery in the 1860s and 1870s in Chapter 9?
10. How does the author compare and contrast the treatment of women to that of the Native Americans in Chapter 7?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the causes and effects of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. What policy changes were enacted as a result of the movement? When did desegregation take place? What contributions to the movement were made by Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, the Communist Party, the Congress of Racial Equality, the Freedom Riders, and the Black Panther Party?
Essay Topic 2
Examine and discuss the Seminole Wars, the policy of Indian removal, and the presidential administrations of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. When was the Indian Removal Act signed into law? By whom? What were the effects of this act on the Native Americans living both east and west of the Mississippi?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the rise of anti-war activism as seen in popular entertainment of the 1960s. How did musicians like the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and others influence the masses during this historical period? What different mediums did activists use in order to influence others? How effective were these efforts in the 1960s in ending the war? How did culture change as a result?
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